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“When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill!”

Joy White Walks Fairs Breaths Golden Hills Dry Brown Autumn Idle Harvest Floating Breeze Pastures Thistles

Author:Mary Howitt

“I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem - just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.”

Thinking Way Long Sound Lines Space Reader Breaths Musical Driving Symbols Hills Bridges Etc Traffic Pauses Urgency Indication Steep Icy Intersections Long Lines

Author:Adrienne Rich

“When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.”

“Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.”

Land Wind Taste Kissing Sick Breaths Evening Thee Hills Our Love Pearls Eastern Mourn Garments Love Sick

Book:Blake: The Complete Poems

Source: Blake: The Complete Poems

“I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.”

Breaths Hills Heroic Cop Beverly Hills

Author:Ja Rule

“We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better be to make you strong to fight that power. Take your languor and easy tears somewhere else. Above all, don't pretty us up. Tell yourself: None of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop, with whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.”

Ifs Mean Happens Fighting Left Strong Easy Grief Tears Died Breaths Greed Hills Revelations Somewhere Else Expendables

Author:Paul Monette

“But Sam turned to Bywater, and so came back up the Hill, as day was ending once more. And he went on, and there was yellow light, and fire within; and the evening meal was ready, and he was expected. And Rose drew him in, and set him in his chair, and put little Elanor upon his lap. He drew a deep breath. ‘Well, I’m back,’ he said”

Wells Littles Said Light Fire Ready Breaths Rose Expected Evening Hills Meals Chairs Yellow Lap Deep Breath I'm Back Fire Within Yellow Light

Book:The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

Source: The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

“The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with the two boys pursuing, the air was so cold they ate ice cream with each breath.”

Two Lost Black Boys Air Sweet Wind Cold Sick Breaths Train Ice Hills Cream Candy Ice Cream Fluttering Confetti

Book:Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel

“Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning.”

Ends Done Light Eye Night House Lost Stars Dark Cities Steps Morning Streets Sweet Wind Mouths Stones Empty Breaths Breathe Awakening Hills Dawn Gray Warmth Breeze Empty Streets Trill

Author:Cesare Pavese

“At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid my head against his chest, and felt his breath stir my hair. I had no words, but I had made my choice. "'Whither thou goest,'" I said. "'I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried.' Be it Scottish hill or southern forest. You do what you have to; I'll be there.”

People Made Said Hands Bigs Lasts Dies Choices Felt Hair Breaths Forests Hills Knees Boards Chests Buried Southern Scottish Lodges

Book:Drums of Autumn

Source: Drums of Autumn

“O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn Thine angel eyes upon our western isle, Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring! The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth, And let thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)

“By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows! How sweet the breath beneath the hill Of Sharon's dewy rose!”

Grows Sweet Flower Breaths Rose Hills Lilies Shady Sharon

Author:Richard Heber

“A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.”

World Moments Night Felt Wind Hair Breaths Hills That Moment Breeze Another World

Author:Francis Marion